Texas Independence Day Highlights State’s Ongoing Secession Efforts

March 4, 2014 2:13 PM

As Texas celebrated its annual “Texas Independence Day,” many in the state’s government leadership and ongoing secession movement say Texas is finally preparing to become an “independent nation,” from the United States. (Photo by Ben Sklar/Getty Images)

Houston (CBS HOUSTON) – As Texas celebrated its annual “Texas Independence Day,” many in the state’s government leadership and ongoing secession movement say Texas is finally preparing to become an “independent nation.”

The 178th anniversary of the 59 settlers’ signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence commemorates the Lone Star State’s March 2, 1836 break from Mexico to create the Republic of Texas. With the Alamo famously under siege, the delegates declared their independence and today the only state that ever won a war to become its own country celebrates March 2 as its own official “national” holiday.

The U.S. brought Texas in as the 28th state of the Union in an event known as the Texas Annexation of 1845.

But recent rhetoric from anti-tax Tea Partiers, libertarians and state officials alike suggests that the secession movement may be moving a step beyond parties and re-enactments, The Inquisitr reported.

Texas Independence Day Brings Up Secession: Do Texans Still Want To Secede?

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Texas Independence Day is not only about celebrating separation from Mexico and becoming its own nation for a time. According to some, the Texas secession movement uses it as a time to discuss having Texas secede from the United States.

“Generally speaking, we have made great progress in becoming an independent nation, an ‘island nation’ if you will, and I think we want to continue down that path so that if the rest of the country falls apart, Texas can operate as a stand-alone entity with energy, food, water and roads as if we were a closed-loop system.”

Larry Kilgore is in the running to become Texas’ governor and he believes a “U.S. economic collapse cannot be avoided” and that the solution is for “”Texas to secede now or we will sink too.” Still, his chances at succeeding in his bid for the governorship are said to be relatively low compared to other candidates.

Some Western Md. Residents Want To Form Their Own State

WESTMINSTER, Md. (WJZ) — A tale of two Marylands: Western Maryland and the rest of the state. Fed up with high taxes and gun control, some people want to break away and go it alone.

Mary Bubala explains why they’re trying to form their own state.

There’s a storm brewing over the beautiful mountains and valleys of Western Maryland. More and more people in those five counties say Governor Martin O’Malley is out of touch and they want to break away from the rest of the state.

“I certainly don’t live in a bubble and I go around the state all the time,” O’Malley said.

“Why don’t you want to listen to people that you don’t agree with?” said Suzanne Olden.

“I spend my whole day listening,” O’Malley said.

Scott Strzelczyk, Suzanne Olden and Rob Parr are part of a growing group that wants to rip Maryland in two, creating the nation’s 51st state. They met recently at O’Lordan’s Irish Pub in Westminster to tell WJZ they’re fed up with politics as usual in Annapolis.

“If your vote doesn’t count, it’s the same as having no vote. We’re not free,” Strzelczyk said. “We’re doing exactly what they did in 1776. I just simply want to live as a free human being with limited government intrusion in my life and that’s really why I do this.”

Western Marylanders push to secede from state

Feb. 10, 2012: Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley testifies in support of a same-sex marriage bill during a committee hearing in Annapolis, Md.AP

A push by frustrated western Maryland residents to part ways with their state is gaining momentum as the initiative turns to social media to get its message out.

Residents in Garrett, Allegany, Washington, Frederick and Carroll County, for months have been pushing an initiative to secede from the state and form a new one, called Western Maryland. Among the biggest problems the group has with Maryland are new gun restrictions, tax increases and what they call unfair district lines the group claims unfairly favor Democrats.

The western Maryland initiative now has nearly 9,000 Facebook “likes” since it was formed in July 2013. Activist Scott Strzelczyk started the Facebook page as a way to bring dissatisfied residents together.

“Here at the state level, we’re controlled by a single party – Democrats – and we feel we have no other recourse,” he has told Fox News. “We’re sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

They also have a beef with the high-crime city of Baltimore.

“Little mystery why this is the case,” the group states. “We don’t want our tax dollars going to Baltimore City or other parts of the state to support the same old failed policies. The solution is simple. We want our own state.”

GREELEY, Colo. — If you mention the word “secession” most people think of the South during the Civil War. But today, a new movement is gaining steam because of frustration over a growing, out-of-control federal government.

A number of conservative, rural Americans are taking about seceding and creating their own states, meaning a new map of the United States of America could include the following:

A 51st state called Jefferson, made up of Northern California and Southern Oregon

A new state called Western Maryland

A new state called North Colorado

These are real movements gaining traction with voters across the country. Jeffrey Hare runs the 51st State Initiative in Colorado, an effort to fight an out-of-control legislature trying to ram big government policies down the throats of voters.

“We’re at this point of irreconcilable differences,” Hare told CBN News.

Secessionist talk has filled town hall meetings and the divide discussed is not just ideological.

But the organizers of the 51st State Initiative are undaunted, saying this type of movement takes time.

“Movements take a while; education takes time,” Hare said. “People do have a hard time saying ,’I want to live in a different state,’ even though physically they live in the same house.”

“It’s hard for them since their lives have been Coloradoans,” he explained. “Their whole lives to say that ‘I’m going to be a new Coloradoan’ or ‘I want to live in the state of liberty’ or something different.”

I think this is more evidence of Americans having been well trained to stop learning, growing, thinking and listening to one another. We’ve been dumbed down by tv and drowned in right wing propaganda from the owners of the four media companies that control most tv, radio and newspapers in America and consistently taught that compromise is “weak” ; that like spoiled toddlers we must always get our own way.
That environmental protection helps everyone in the long run, or that laws protecting minority populations are part of a just system seem to be beyond the understanding of some.
Imho the good part of secession is any states that secede will no longer have the protection of the overly well funded US military. This will make it quite a bit easier for Native Nations to take our land back from the idiots destroying it. Bringing the Bolivarian revolution to north America courtesy of racist hicks would be spectacularly humorous in an ironic way:-) Without the U S Marine corps Texas is going to return to Aztlan then the “illegal immigrants” will be the Euro-settlers descendants. I know its about as likely as Chechnya and Tibet wresting their resource rich lands away from their Imperial conquerors but if the folks who make me scared to drive thru Texas now are going to do the heavy lifting for us, its certainly a nice daydream! ;-)

LOL, as the saying goes, “Put up or shut up “. Under Rick Perry the amount of money that Texas receives from the Federal government has increased by I believe 100%. They used to be a pay in State , now they are a taker like the other 32 States that re4ceive substantial federal assistance. Although looking beyond Perry’s hypocrisy in knocking the Federal Government while extending his hand under the table to receive federal funds. The truth is that The large majority of the increase in funding is due to an astronomical increase in defense and military. Texas has the two largest in Fort Hood and Fort Bliss. Then we look at the amount of people who have lost jobs and have been demoted in the income scale. Texas now also receives assistance for federal subsidies and programs. Before that became a Texas reality, the truth is that they paid more out in taxes to the Federal government than they received. I believe it was
Texas to the Fed $1.03
the Fed to Texas $.73
If I remember correctly.

There are many who are not happy with Perry or the job he has done as Texas Governor and are relieved that he will not be running again. Texas voters seem to suffer from the same malaise as the rest of the country. They hear only what is convenient or pleasing to them. They do not see or hear anything outside of party lines. Sad, but true. So thankfully Texas will have the opportunity to elect someone else who hopefully will at least try to turn back the hands of time.

It has been said that in land and oil alone Texas could survive alone, although it has also been mentioned that if Texas did secede there would be a few States that would consider joining it. Thereby, countering the aspect of Texas standing alone at the mercy of whomever would like to take control.

The ones who use state power and generalized white privilege to kill ndns, Hispanic and black people and get away with it. I should be used to them living in Florida but here I can hide in my house!
Before too much longer they will be outnumbered and out of power and control but that fact has made them even more dangerous:-/

Well , if you are in South Florida most left a while back. I lived there when the East Everglades was still full of the White Supremacist Element. Their pick-up trucks with bumper stickers urging the last American to leave South Florida to make sure to take the Flag with them.
I also remember being treated or rather ignored in Griff’s Western by the clerk when I was the only customer in the store at that time. Yet my husband who happens to be a very light skinned Cuban went in the next day and he was treated very well. He questioned the clerk and received only denials. He informed them that we would never shop in their establishment again as our money would be better spent in a store that does not suffer from bigotry. However, I do know for a fact that many just could not handle the influx of South and Central Americans. The Cubans and Puerto Ricans that were already there were enough of a thorn in their side. I think the added influx was the straw that broke the camels back , so to speak. Many just sold their property and left for North Florida or out of the State completely.

Im in the south central part or the northernmost area of southwest Florida. St Petersburg is an interesting mix. Watching the old South fundamentalist Christian racist lot trying to cope with the multicultural gay youth and all of us trying to cope with the white privilege soaked rich asstards from Jersey could easily be another miserable reality tv show:-/ the white supremacists are usually funnier here because they really are just so dumb. Some skinhead kids had a skinhead white supremacist band and they needed a guitarist. They were so upset that my long haired ndn husband refused to play with them. They didn’t actually get why that wouldn’t work O_O But here they aren’t officially in charge any more which is a bit better than a lot of Texas at least. We actually have a gay guy and girl and a (straight) black guy on our city council right now. And the Chasco racist ndn mockery festival in Pasco where the city council invited people to bring guns to shoot the ndn protesters years ago has been taken over by ndns and now has actual pow wow dance competition with big money prizes for ndn dancers. I never imagined that would happen but I laughed a lot when I first heard it. (I was one of the intended protesters the year of the invitation but my Mom nixed the trip after the gun thing)

Ye s I know St Pete very well. I lived on the opposite coast between Tampa and Ocala in a small town by the name of Inverness, near Crystal River. I loved it, it was beautiful there and yes there were many racists in that area. Which is curious to me because there are so many Northerners that have moved there. You would think that coming from such racially diverse States they would be more tolerant. Or perhaps their racism is the very reason they moved, lol. Who knows….

My daughter who is 4th generation American was placed in ESOL. I found that curious and requested a reasoning for that move. I was told that her scores had been low on her English proficiency exam. I said fine and requested to see the exam and her low score. I was summarily indformed that those exams were not for public viewing. LOL, well this Cuban American is not going to take that sort of challenge in stride. I proceedied to inform the Assistant Principal that my daughter was American born and her first and only language is English, because she had refused to learn Spanish. The children in school would make fun of her when she tried to speak spanish so she refused to speak from that moment on. She spoke only English at home so it was puzzling to me that her English scores could be so low that they would warrant an ESOL class. Therefore, in light of the fact that they either couldn’t or wouldn’t present their proof for me to view. I would be going to the school board to request a review. It, being very, doubtful that the test scores would also be forbidden for School Board eyes as well. Because , if those test scores were not made available and an adequate reasoning for my daughter being placed in a remedial class was not justified. I would have no recourse but to believe that she had been singled out because her last name is Hispanic. I also informed her that in my book that would be called discrimination and asked if she was familiar with the term. lol….yes I was being a butt, however, I did not get off the banana boat yesterday and would not let this just go. I was tired of the BS and I wanted them to understand that this would not go unchallenged.
She sputtered and denied and in the end conceded. Informing me that if I was so sure that my daughter was not in need of ESOL and that her first langauge was indeed English then they would honor my request and take her off the list.

Now honestly , if there had actually been a test, since when are parents not allowed to view test results for their child. Ok fine, not any other student , but your own child?

And if the test story had been legitimate she would not have backed down.
Needless to say, eventually I pulled her out of school and taught her at home where she was safe from bullying students and harassing teachers. Sad , but true.

Oh man that is insane but totally in line with the idiocy my Mom experienced while teaching here. They tried to pull stunts like that on her students but it never worked because she constantly called them on their bullsh**. I’m glad you didn’t let it slide. I’m consistently astonished at the incipient racism so many snowbirds bring with them. Along with pointless destruction of trees and plants we call it the old white people disease. I always wondered why with a vocabulary larger than most high schoolers I was placed in a special ed speech class in 2nd grade when we first moved to the farm. I guess my grandpa’s ndn-ness inspired more than the racist comments but I never made that connection til just now. Did your daughter ever change her mind about learning Spanish? My Mom always encouraged her students to learn their ancestors language whenever possible as I guess most elementary school kids feel it isn’t cool or important to do.

lol, their thought process always amazes me and not in a good way.
She understand now how important it is for her to be fluent in more than one language. Unfortunately she has not been able to work through the fear of ridicule, so itis slow going for her . However, she is at least trying and that is a very good thing :).
Your mom sounds like an awesome woman.

She is awesome. I’m studying Spanish again, I knew a little in grade school. Your daughter could learn it and keep it secret then she will be ahead of them all like the code talkers.She would be able to understand and communicate without all the idiots knowing what she is saying:-) My grandmother’s first language was French and she and her sister could talk to one another at school in privacy. I knew girls in my high school like that, they would be cracking on idiots in Spanish and the creeps had no idea what was being said. It’s crazy that they pick on kids who are bilingual! Everywhere else most people are bilingual but in America its like stupid is a trophy:-/

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